Al0 - Sunday, February 28, 1982 - North Shore News.

inquiring reporter ee

by Ellsworth = Dickson

People’s views on marriage and divorce have changed over the years. Teenagers today are trying to sort out the best way to run their lives in an age when you can do just about anything you want.

Today’s question for teenagers is:

‘What are your views on marriage?”

Glen Best North Vancouver

I] think it is OK to live together if you plan on getting married. If you plan on having children, it is better to be married. | think some people get married too young — maybe that 1s one reason for the high divorce rate. 1 think it ts wrong {to rush into marriage. even if you both feel that you love each other very much.

Melody Smith North Vancouver

I think many marriages fail because they don't really think about what they are getting into. I'm 18 and marriage is a long way off for me. | look at marmage as a lifetime commitment.

Shelley Donovan North Vancouver

I dont think marnape is obsolete in spite of all the divorces If both partners want the marrage to work it will dts cup te the un dividual but personally bdo dt thik ot wobest to live topether

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Legality of

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mediate public sector pay curbs of 10-12 per cent.

The increases approved were for Schools Superintendent Ed Carlin (from $60,200 to $70,000 annually, 16.28 per cent), Education Directors Ron Fenwick and Bill May (each from $54,800 to $64,000, 16.79 per cent) and Secretary-Treasurer John Cassey (from $52,100 to $59,900, 14.97 per cent).

Furk told The News she received a call from John Gregory, chairman of the

school board personnel committee, February 17 asking if she could be

available the following day but not specifying a time or place.

“I received no_ further notification,” she said, “unul about 1:30 p.m. on Thursday when I was informed by phone at my home that the meeting (in a room at the Park Royal Hotel) had already been under way for an hour and a half.”

From that point onward Furk — who lives in the 5800 block at the western end of the municipality — said she participated in the remainder of the meeting over the phone and registered her opposition to the pay hikes.

Under standing rules of procedure, however, she had been advised that her vote could not be legally recorded because she was not physically present.

She had also been advised, she added, that in the ab- sence of specific school board bylaws on the calling

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PLANS to subdivide a lot at 4575 Glenwood Avenue in North Vancouver District have been thwarted by District} council, which turned down William Wong's application after it

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of meetings. the standard required procedure was 24 hours notice in writing.

Earlier in the week the legality of the Feburary 18 meeting was challenged by members of the public at the board's regular twice monthly meeting. At that time board Chairman Mark Sager agreed to seek an independent opinion.

In an interview with The

News Gregory said the Schools Act, unlike the Municipal Act, prescribes

only “reasonable notice” for the calling of board meetings. He confirmed that he had called Furk about the special closed meeting the day before but had sub- sequently been unable to reach her by phone until the meeting was in progress.

Gregory denied that the timing of the meeting was connected with the premier’s pay curbs telecast aired on BCTV at 7 p.m. the same day.

Gregory said the annual salary review for senior, non-union officials was normally completed by the beginning of February each year. It had been delayed this year because of last- minute changes in the schools budget, he ex- plained, and the special meeting to deal with it had been called because the administrators involved were “becoming upset”.

Their concern, Gregory said, arose from the fact that their opposite numbers in all other school districts had already received the statutory salary reviews.

At the board meeting open to the public last Monday

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was condemned by Wong's neighbors.

The neighbors said the subdivision would be an invasion of privacy and one suggested it would lower property values.

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MARK SAGER =. school board chairman refused to grant request for minutes of the meeting to be read.

chairman Sager had refused to have the minutes of the special meeting read. On that occasion, however, Gregory was reported as saying that the increases were as high as 15 per cent but well below the 16.9 per cent teachers’ settlement concluded last year.

In three cases, in fact, they were actually well over 16 per cent, only a few decimal points below the teachers’ settlement.

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institutions affected say, however, that some senior staff circles had “solid in- dication” of the pay curb details announced by the premier.

Asked about the possibility of rollbacks provided for under the curbs program, Secretary-Treasu- rer Cassey said he thought this would be unlikely because the salary review — as elsewhere in the province — would normally have been completed nearly three weeks ahead of the premier’s speech.

The increases will add a total of $36,000 to the school board’s 1982 expenditures.

At press time, Chairman Sager, despite repeated phone calls, was not available for comment.

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